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CONSTITUTION 

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BY-LAWS 

OF THE 

^ALEM COUNTY 

Historical Society 



Instituted November nth, 



WITH THE NAMES OF THE FIRST MEMBERS AND OFFICER! 



SALEM, N. J. 



SALEM, N. J., 

National Standard Print, 

1S95. 



Officers of the Society. 



^ — 

^ PRESIDENT : 

^ WILLIAM PATTERSON. 



VICE-PEESIDENTS : 

ANDREW SINNICKSON, W. G. TYLER, 
A. H. SLAPE, J. HOWARD SINNICKSON. 



CORRESPONDING SECRETARY : 

WOUDNUTT PETTIT. 



RECORDING SECRETARY 

J. B. HILLIARD. 



TREASURER : 

CHARLES W. CASPER. 



EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE : 

JOSIAH WISTAR. W. T. HILLIARD. 
T. J. YORKE. 



CONSTITUTION. 

Article I. This Society shall be called 
"The Salem County Historical So- 
ciety. '* 

Article IL The object of the Society shall 
be to discover, procure and peserve whatever 
may relate to the natural, civil, literary and 
ecclesiastical history of Salem county. 

Article III. This Society shall consist of 
resident, corresponding and honorary mem- 
bers. Resident members shall be those resi- 
ding in the ( ounty of Salem. Corresponding 
members shall be th ^se residing in other parts 
of the State of New Jersey. And honorary 
members shall be such as shall be elected by 
the Society to that position. 

Article IV. The officers of the Society, to 
be elected annually, and by ballot, shall be a 
President, four Vice-Presidents, Recording 
Secretary, Corresponding Secretary, a Treas- 
urer and an Executive Committee of five mem- 
bers, of whom the President and the Corres- 
ponding Secretary shall be ex officio members. 
And this Committee shall have power to ap- 
point other committees. 



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Article V. It shall be the duty of the Ex- 
ecutive Committee to solicit and receive dona- 
tions for the Societ}^; to recommend plans for 
promoting its objects, to digest and prepare 
business and to execute other duties as m y 
from time to time be committed to them by 
the Society. They shall meet once at least 
in every three months. At each annual 
meeting, or oftener if required, they shall 
make a report to the Society of the principal 
acquisitions and transactions of the preceding 
year. 

Article VI. Resident members shall pay 
on admission the sum of two dollars, and one 
dollar annually thereafter. Any member 
paying twenty dollars at one time shall become 
a life member, and every person who shall 
have regularly paid the annual fees and dues 
for twenty years successively shall thereafter 
be a life member. But should any resident 
member, other than a life member, fail to pay 
the said annual fees and dues, for three years, 
or at any time refuse to pay the same, he shall 
forfeit the privileges of membership, and his 
name shall be erased from the list of members. 

Article VII. The Society shall meet quar- 
terly, to-wit : The second Tuesday in March, 
June, September and December. But the 
President, or, in his absence, one of the Vice- 



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Presidents, may call a special meeting at the 
request of three members. The election of 
officers shall be at the meeting on the first Tues- 
day in December. The election shall be de- 
termined by the majority of the ballots cast. 

Article VIII. The election of members 
shall be by ballot, upon the nomination of the 
Executive Committee. 

Article IX. This Constitution may be 
amended from time to time as the Society shall 
deem proper. But no amendments shall be- 
come a part of the Constitution until it shall 
have been favorably acted upon at two regular 
consecutive meetings of the Society. 



BY-LAWS. 

I. Five members shall constitute a quorum 
for the transaction of business, but no altera- 
tion of the Constitution, or addition thereto, 
shall be made unless thirteen members at least 
be present and two-thirds vote for the same. 

II. It shall be the duty of the President, or 
in his absence, of either of the Vice-Presidents, 
to preside at all meetings of the Society, and 
the presiding officer shall have a casting vote. 

III. The Corresponding Secretary shall have 
the custody of all letters and communications 
to the Society, excepting papers read and ad- 
dresses delivered before the same, which shall 
be deposited in the archives. He shall at 
every meeting read such letters and communi- 
cations as he shall have received, and shall 
prepare all letters connected with the business 
or objects of the Society, excepting such, for 
the preparation of which a special committee 
shall be appointed. He shall notify all mem- 
bers of their election and of such other matters 
as he may deem necessary or be directed to 
communicate; and shall keep, in suitable books, 
provided for the purpose, copies of all import- 
ant letters written on behalf of the Societv. 



He shall carefully preserve the original of all 
letters and other communications he may re- 
ceive and shall deposit the same in the arch- 
ives of the Society. 

IV. The Recording Secretary shall have 
charge of the Constitution, By-laws and 
records of the Society. He shall keep a fair 
and accurate record of all the proceedings of 
the Society in a book to be provided for the 
purpose, and give notice to the several officers 
and to the Executive and special committees 
of all votes, orders, resolves and proceedings 
of the Society affecting them or appertaining 
to their respective duties. He shall give 
notice of the time and place of meetings of 
the Society, by advertising two weeks previ- 
ously, in the newspapers of Salem. Special 
meetings shall be called by advertisement, in 
the papers, at least one week before the 
meeting. 

V. The Treasure!- shall collect all dues and 
subscriptions and shall keep the funds and 
securities of the Society. He shall pay 
such bills as may be approved by the Ex- 
ecutive Committee. He shall keep a true 
account of his receipts and payments in 
books to be provided for the purpose, and at 
each annual meeting, or oftener, if required 
by the Executive Committee, render the same 



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to the Society, duly audited, by a committee 
appointed for that purpose. 



CORPORATION. 

To the Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas 
of the county of Salem : 

This is to certify that the Salem County 
Historical Society, a voluntary association of 
citizens of this State, resident in Salem county, 
being desirous of becoming and being a cor- 
porate body, under and by virtue of the laws 
of this State, and in particular of an act en- 
titled "an act to incorporate Historic Socie- 
ties," approved March 27, 1878, and the sup- 
plements thereto, in pursuance thereof did on 
the thirty-first day of July in the year of our 
Lord, one thousand eight hundred and ninety- 
five, as a society and as citizens of this State, 
resident in this county, assemble at the place 
where the Court of Common Pleas is usually 
held in Salem county, at a time by them 
agreed upon, that is to say at the time and 
place last afore aid, and did give at least five 
days notice, prior thereto, of the time and 
place and purpose of assembling by an adver- 
tisement set up in open view at or near such 
place of meeting and. also did advertise said 
time, object and place of meeting in one or 
more of the public newspapers of said county, 
to-wit : The Soiitli Jerseynian and the Na- 
tional Standard., for at least ten days prior 
thereto, ond when so assembled did elect 
Albert H. Slape as Chairman of said meeting 



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and J. B. ''^Tilliard as the Secretary thereof, 
and did then and there by a plurality of voices 
of said citizens, being also members of the 
Salem County Historical Society, as were then 
present, determine upon and elect a number 
not exceeding seven of said citizens and being 
members of said Society as aforesaid, to be 
Trustees of the Society now incorporated 
herein. 

The names of the said citizens so elected at 
said time and place, as Trustees of the Society 
herein incorporated are as follows, that is to 
say : 

William Patterson, Owen L Jones, Thomas 
J. Yorke, J. Bernard Hilliard, Albert H. Slape, 
Edward S. Sharpe, Charles W. Casper. 

That the said persons, citizens as aforesaid, 
did adopt, and the said Trustees did take 
upon themselves the corporate name of **Thc 
Salem County j4istorieal Society.'* 

In witness whereof we have hereunto set 
our hands and seals this thirty-first day of 
July in the year of our Lord, one thousand 
eight hundred and ninety-five. 

William Patterson, 
Owen L. Jones, 
1 HOMAS J. Yorke, 
J. Bernard Hilliard. 
Albert H. Slape, 
Edward S. Sharpe, 
Charles W. Casper. 



ORDER OF BUSINESS. 



At the regular meetings of the Society, the 
following shall be the order of business : 

1. The Reading of the Minutes of last 

meeting. 

2. Reading of Letters, or a report by the 

Corresponding Secretary. 

3. The Reports of the Treasurer and Re- 

cording Secretary. 

4. Reports of the Executive and other 

Committees. 

5. Election of Members proposed by the 

Executive Committee. 

6. Miscellaneous Business. 

7. Communications and Addresses before 

the Society. 

This Order of Business may be suspended 
at any time by a majority of the members 
present. 

Adopted November nth, 1884. 



MENIBERS OK THK 

Salem County Historical Society 



William Patterson, 
•Josej^h H. Thompson, 
♦Elijah Ware, 
*Jose]ih Bassett, 
William T. Hilliard, 
T. Jones Yorke, Jr., 
♦Constant M. Eakii., 
Thomas J. Craven, 
Thomas Sinn ick son, 
William Plummer, 
Charles M. Perkins. 
Albert H. Slape, 
*George Mecum, 
*Thomas Shourds, 
Robert Gwynne, 
Morris H. Stratron, 
Benjamin Patterson, 
♦Samuel Abbott, 
Thomas T. Hilliard, 
Henry M. Rumsey, 
Owen L. Jones, 
Walter W. x\cton, 
Charles W. Casper, 
John V. Craven, 
Josiah Wistar, 
Andrew Sinnickson, 
I. Oakford Acton, 
*John Sinnickson, M. D. 
J. Bernard Hilliard, 
Enoch S Fogg, 
William Z. Flitcraft, 
Caleb Wheeler, 
♦Richard M. Acton. 
*Samuel Prior. 
*John Clement. 

HONORAR 
Henry T. Ellett, 
Gideon Scull, 
Charles Roberts, 
Francis B. Lee, 
George Pettit, 

* Deceased. 



Edward S. Sharpe, M. D., 
Sa.nuel W. Dunn, 
Woodnutt Pettit, 
J. Jessup Ford, 
Johr C. Mulford, 
♦Jonathan Kelty, 
A. W. Sherron, 
Thompson E Mulford, 
*Frank M. Acton, 
*Annie G. Hubljell, 
Annie L. Hubbell, 
Benjamirt R. Kelty, 
Susan Gibbon, 
Charles Mecum, 
William C. Reeve, 
Sarah B. Harris, 
William Morris, 
George B. Rumsey, 
John F, Prendergast, 
Harriet V. Cone, 
Quinton Harris, 
Mary E. Thompson, 
Maria Mecum, 
Hannah Hall, 
Anna Hunter Van Meter, 
Cornelia Prior, 
Lavinia Dunlap Casper, 
, Isabella Craven, 
Adaline Sinnickson, 
J. Forman Sinnickson, 
*Henry Bacon Ware. 
William H. Chew, 
W. Graham Tyler. 
J, Howard Sinnickson. 
Edward Trenchard. 
Y MEMBERS. 

Tennessee. 

Oxford, England. 

Philadelphia 

Trenton. 

Philadelphia. 



